Lenore M. Skomal
Lenore Skomal rises to the level of found poetry still not widely known. You'll enjoy getting in on the start of her career in advance of the parade.
SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW
Third Willow

It’s the summer of ’54 in the sleepy midwestern town of Sand Flats, Nebraska. Four lonely misfits forge an unlikely friendship under the draping branches of the third willow–a safe place where humor, magic and sorrow coexist. There they discover that best friends can help them escape the adult world that threatens to steal their innocence.
Bluff

Jude Black lives in that in-between, twilight place teetering on death but clinging to life in order to bring her baby into this world. Only she knows the circumstances surrounding her mysterious fall off the bluff that landed her in the hospital being kept alive by medical intervention. Only she knows who the father of her baby is.
The play jumps around in time and space to develop some of the most interesting characters.... Credit this to the magical combination of a wonderful script, tight, well-constructed and blocked direction.
LOCAL THEATRE NEW YORK

With Lenore at the helm as Festival Director and Founder, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, founded in 2016, reclaimed the theatre festival experience. By working closely playwrights in producing their plays, the end focus was to give our audience a complete New York Theater experience at an affordable price. BBTF presented over 200 original works at Theatre Row on 42nd Street and is currently on hiatus following the COVID pandemic.

We're overjoyed to announce that Lenore's first book, the biography of famous lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis is embarking on its journey to the silver screen.
That's right! Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter has been optioned by Producer/Director Nico Raineau at Los Angeles-based Little Warrior Productions. For more information, check out www.NicoRaineau.com. And if you haven't read the book, click here.
We're taking it to the streets! Lenore will be on an East Coast book tour in honor of the 20th year of continual publication of Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, hopefully appearing at a lighthouse or historical society near you. The tour launches May 11 at the Newport Historical Society at 5:30 PM. She will be joined by Nico Raineau for part of the tour in July. Stay tuned for dates!
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Winner of multiple awards for literature, biography, plays and humor, Lenore Skomal’s catalogue spans many genres. Known for her poetic and moving literary style, as well as acerbic wit, her standout writing style has been critically acclaimed. With over 30 years of professional writing experience, she is a playwright with two Off-Broadway productions (BLUFF 2016) (THE EXES 2019), founder and director of Broadway Bound Theatre Festival in NYC, newspaper columnist, and author of 17 books. An avid theatre producer, she has recently ventured into film producing with colleague Chris Phillips in his latest film This is Where it Ends.
Past honors include winning the prestigious New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens 2003, Whidbey Island Writer's Conference honorable mention for best fiction, placed in the top 100 of the International Writer's Digest Annual Fiction Contest. As a journalist, Lenore won numerous Society of Professional Journalist awards for humor column--an anthology of which entitled BURNT TOAST won the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award and was honored as best in humor category of the Indie Excellence Awards. Her novel, THIRD WILLOW, won honorable mention in the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. Her first novel, BLUFF finished as top finalist in literary fiction category of the International Book Awards 2012. Her adaptation of BLUFF for the stage was a finalist in the Eugene O'Neill and has been adapted to an audio play by the same name, available on Audible.
She's a member of the Dramatists Guild, graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute in NYC, member of the National Association of Newspaper Columnists, Society of Professional Journalists, Theater Resources Unlimited, the Off Broadway Alliance, Theater Communications Group and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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It’s a dark story about a dark world, but Skomal makes the story readable and lovely via her prose...Skomal has created a world that couldn’t take place anywhere else. A haunting reminder about the loss of innocence.
'THIRD WILLOW'
KIRKUS REVIEW
Read the book! As an adult I was reminded of the differences between the social mores of the 50s compared to today’s society.
I highly recommend this book for middle school and older. This is one you won’t want to miss. WOW! This book blew me away.
'THIRD WILLOW'
READERS' VIEWS
The power of friendship and the perseverance of youth remain the focus throughout the intense and riveting story and makes the reader long for an escape from reality where freedom and friendship reign supreme.
'THIRD WILLOW'
ERIC HOFFER
AWARD COMMITTEE
Who would have thought that a coma could provide a new lease on life?...(Playwright) Lenore Skomal ... guide(s) us through Jude’s journey with aplomb and delicacy. Though the play deals with heavy drama, Skomal’s script (which she adapted from her own novel) is infused with a sardonic humor.
'BLUFF'
NEW YORK THEATER REVIEW